Book Catalog Software for Mac OS X

I have a large book collection that is just crying out for organization. But the idea of manually coding all the books in a database - not for me. Happily someone else has done the work for me. The people at Deepprose have a wonderful product called Booxter that does all that for you. Its written for Mac OS X, so older OS 9 Macs and Windows users are out of luck. It has a very intuitive interface and if you have a webcam, you can scan the barcode on the back of the book to query Amazon or the Library of Congress for detailed information about the book. It will download the book cover image from Amazon (if available) and allow you to annotate the record with comments about the book. If you loan books to friends, it can assist in tracking who has it (and since when). It also grabs the list price for the book and you can add the actual price you paid for it. Booxter will calculate a running total - both of what you paid and what is the total replacement value of your collection. The price for all this? $14.99. Highly Recommend it.



An alternative (and one that is more expensive - $40) is Delicious Monster's Delicious Library. It has the added ability to organize your CD and DVD collections. I found the information it collected on books less complete than Booxter and I didn't need the CD and DVD coverage (I use iTunes for the former and don't have that many DVDs) to justify the higher cost. But your mileage may vary. Both have trial periods, so go ahead and try'em.



Enjoy.